Save Eberhardt Press!

by diggers16 on March 16, 2018

Eberhardt Press is community print shop and small press in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2004. Named in honor of anarchist writer and adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt, the shop provides design and printing services to zine publishers, worker co-ops, musicians, artists, small publishers, anarchist organizers, non-profit organizations, activist groups, local independent businesses and lots of other folks. For the last ten years they have printed Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, often donating some of their labor and adding enhancements like color for free. Now they are being evicted, and need our help to successfully relocate and continue producing.

Charles Overbeck, of Eberhardt Press, with the anarcha-feminisms issue of Perspectives, that he so beautifully printed.

Portland is undergoing very rapid capitalist development (gentrification) and the building housing Eberhardt Press, along with Printed Matter SP and Devout Rcrds, was bought by a developer. The new landlords initially told them they would renew the lease this month. Instead they terminated it.

These three counter-institutions are raising funds to cover moving costs to a new space, in the two weeks they gave them to get out. This situation is also knocking the better part of a month out of all their production schedules, which is devastating. Fortunately, thanks to our community looking out for them, they have a line on a new space in the same neighborhood, but need enough funds to cover securing the lease, getting their equipment to the new location, and getting back on their feet and back to work. We can do this; we can save these institutions. But they need your help.

About the IAS

The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS), a nonprofit foundation established in 1996 to support the development of anarchism, is a grant-giving organization for radical writers and translators worldwide. To date, we have funded some ninety projects by authors from countries around the world, including Argentina, Lebanon, Canada, Chile, Ireland, Nigeria, Germany, South Africa, and the United States. Equally important, we publish the Anarchist Interventions book series in collaboration with AK Press and Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, the online journal Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, and the new Lexicon pamphlet series as well as organize the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference and offer the Mutual Aid Speakers List. The IAS is part of a larger movement to radically transform society as well. We are internally democratic and work in solidarity with people around the globe who share our values.